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Cross posted from DOUBTFUL. Back in June, locals of Westbrook, Maine said they saw a large snake slithering around. After no sign of the beast a week later, a Westbrook police officer witnessed it eating something near Riverbank Park on the Presumpscot River. A second officer called in also saw it. From their Facebook page: On…

You can imagine the stress caused by this episode. Even people not freaked out by snakes would have been rattled. Beckie Kistler said she was driving down Interstate 485 on Wednesday when the snake slid down the driver’s side door toward her steering wheel. Source: Woman finds copperhead sliding down door while driving on highway…

A dangerous African gaboon viper was reportedly seen loose in a town northeast of Macon, Georgia. Source: Venomous snake possibly sighted in Milledgeville According to Mark McKinnon with the Department of Natural Resources – Law Enforcement Division, a gaboon viper was seen near the intersection of Hairwood Drive and Harrisburg Road. McKinnon said the snake is…

Did this witness photograph what some have been reporting? Pythons this far north would be a serious discovery since none have survived here before. However, there is good reason to be skeptical. Possible Python sighted near Chattahoochee river. An Abbeville man, Randy Sanders, who was walking in a stream with his grandchildren on Kolomoki creek southeast…

You don’t always need a male. But it helps. World’s Longest Snake Has Virgin Birth—First Recorded in Species. An 11-year-old reticulated python named Thelma produced six female offspring in June 2012 at the Louisville Zoo in Kentucky, where she lives with another female python, Louise. No male had ever slithered anywhere near the 200-pound (91-kilogram),…

Things in the house fell over, off shelves, off the wall. Furniture was moved. The family wonder what the heck was going on in the house. It’s no ghost, but an unwelcome intruder nonetheless. ‘You couldn’t pay me to go back inside’: Ontario family finds three-metre snake draped across couch in living room. For a week,…

Another large snake on the loose reported in New Jersey. At least we have some evidence of this one. Large snake terrorizes Lower Township neighborhood – NBC40.net. Animal control officers received several complaints of a more than 12 foot long python snake in the Villas section of Lower Township. The snake has been spotted for…

It looks like they did. Not helpful. But see update below. Reptile Expert: Snake On Loose In NJ Actually An Anaconda « CBS New York. A reptile specialist leading the search for a snake on the loose in Lake Hopatcong now says it is a green anaconda, not a boa constrictor, as officials had maintained.…

This tough lady stayed remarkably calm in the situation. Even after the snake returned. She doesn’t want it killed either. There were two in the bed and the little snake fed. Ms McVee’s ordeal began on Tuesday morning when she awoke at 5:45am with what she assumed was her Chihuahua Tori nuzzling her, but quickly…

Afraid of snakes? Now you will be a bit nervous to use the loo. Snake crawls out of toilet to bite woman’s backside – The Local. Castroverde, a mother of two young children, says she was seated on her toilet at around 11pm when she heard a muffled noise. This was followed by a splashing,…

True story. She did not expect this bathroom intruder. African python giant snake found in bathroom. A 12-foot python has been returned to its owner after a slithery stop at a Central Texas home where a woman earlier bathed her pet guinea pigs. The Eagle newspaper reported Tuesday that Veronica Rodriguez was shocked in early…

Well, this is an unplesant case of food “poisoning”. Last Supper: Centipede Dies Eating Way Out of Snake Belly – NBC News.com. A Serbian herpetologist was out snake-tagging in Macedonia when she came across a bizarre find: A young viper, with a centipede’s head poking out of its abdomen. The snake, a juvenile female nose-horned viper…

Got a small pet? You need to keep an eye out for hungry wildlife that will consider it a meal. Python eats dog tied to kennel – Yahoo!7. A NSW woman has endured a nasty shock after finding her pet dog, that had been chained in its kennel, swallowed by a python. The Lismore woman…

We couldn’t not post this one. Snake eats crocodile after epic fight in Queensland. An enormous water python has devoured a metre-long fresh water crocodile following an epic duel that shocked onlookers at Lake Moondarra, near Mount Isa, on Sunday. And that’s not uncommon, according to University of Queensland snake expert Bryan Fry. The exhausted…

Another invasive Burmese python specimen has been found in Florida, this time by engineers in the everglades. 18-foot Python Found in Florida (CNN.com): The work crew came across the snake Tuesday in wooded uplands near wetlands a few miles north of Everglades National Park, Smith said. They called in the agency’s python coordinator, who killed the…

If you kill a venomous snake, note that they retain instinctive reflexes to bite for long after even their spinal cord is severed. Snake bites man 45 minutes after being killed : Rest of the World, News – India Today. Jake Thomas, a volunteer who mows the local cemetery at Werris Creek, came across the…

So, this article is mostly a snake wrangler trying to drum up business. But he may have a good point. DIY snake removal is not a wise choice. Toilet snake appearances are on the up according to a Brisbane snake catcher | The Courier-Mail. A BRISBANE snake catcher says he is not surprised a snake…

Another reason why you should probably not pick up furniture off the street. Snake in a couch: Grand Rapids woman finds boa in curbside sofa | wzzm13.com. Two months after she moved a second hand couch into her bedroom, a Grand Rapids woman discovered a boa constrictor was living under the cushions. Holly Wright says…

This doesn’t happen often but it does happen. Must have been a horrifying sight. Python kills security guard near Bali luxury hotel. A python strangled a security guard near a luxury hotel on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali on Friday, and then escaped into nearby bushes following the deadly attack, police and a hotel employee…

Ouch. Too many euphemisms… Snake bites man’s penis. Kwabena Nkrumah was attending to nature’s call at a public toilet facility in a deplorable state at Faaman when he suddenly felt a sharp pain at the tip of his manhood. When he starred deep into the toilet, Nkrumah, who is a porter, nearly collapsed as he…

Ugh, we posted this in the Leftover links for Turkey Day, on Twitter and on Facebook several times to try to undo the silly tale of a man-eating snake. It does no good. If the story is too WOW it will just keep spreading, like a virus. So, once again, we are going to tell…

This snake attack took place weeks ago but officials are just releasing information about how this out of place snake strangled a pet dog in a family’s backyard. Python kills 60-pound Siberian husky The first call to Miami-Dade’s 911 operator was frantic. A python had wrapped itself around the neck of the family pet, a…

I’m simply NOT buying this story. That’s the spirit: Snake preserved in wine for 3 months bites woman – ODD – Globaltimes.cn. The Year of the Snake has proved unlucky for one woman in northern China who received hospital treatment after opening a bottle of wine containing a snake that suddenly jumped out and bit…

Well this was weird. Sue Cull didn’t know the police were looking for an escaped eight-foot snake. She obviously walked right into it. Or did she? What happened here? Python bites woman as she heads home from the pub The 47-year-old, from Griffith John Street, took a short cut across the grass near to where she…